Interesting Experiences

Here you will find a bulleted list of interesting experiences I have, well, experienced. I am really bad at talking about myself (as opposed to my interests, about which I could talk ad nauseum) so if you ever feel like breaking the ice with me, these might be good places to start.

The time my sisters and I got into the White House. I was wearing a tie dye tee shirt, and my sisters were wearing sun dresses. Everyone else was wearing black tie. Bill Clinton waved at us and we were fleetingly on national television. I was 8 years old.

The day my family got to meet Barack and Michelle Obama, and Stephen Hawking, among many others.

Stories from the 2012 campaign trail where, in Ohio, my friend Colin and I encountered crazy characters, slept on floors, hitched a ride back to Chicago with a jazz musician, and found ourselves on the bleachers at McCormick Place behind President Obama on election night.

Dance parties on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (I need not say more.)

Meeting the Emperor and Empress of Japan.

What happened to bring my first startup, Mergenote (rest in peace), to a screeching and unceremonious halt.

A misbegotten trip to NYC with my friend Patrick and a few other UChicago undergrads, in which we lobbied the United Nations for greater student involvement in an academic network project they were developing. I learned a lot about bureaucracy that week. We did get a photo with Ban Ki-Moon, which made the whole thing worthwhile.

Going to Antarctica.

Bringing the UChicago undergraduate entrepreneurship club together alongside my friends in 2009.